Free speech clampdown in Israel
JVL Introduction
Israel is at war and “(a)ny expression of solidarity with the Palestinian civilian victims, opposing the war on Gaza, or calling it a war crime is being perceived as support for terror or a terrorist organization,”. Consequently, some Palestinian and some Jewish Israelis are losing their jobs, being arrested and detained.
Outside Israel, job offers are being revoked at Harvard, and Colombia for supporting Palestinians, students have been temporarily suspended from London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, University College London’s Marxist society has been suspended and, of course, elision with antisemitism is being made again.
Israel’s police boss even threatens to send anti-war protesters to Gaza ‘on buses’ and while this is not Israeli policy it may chime with the dangerous mood in Israel.
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This article was originally published by +972 on Tue 17 Oct 2023. Read the original here.
‘This is political persecution’: Israel cracks down on internal critics of its Gaza war"
Palestinians, as well as some left-wing Jews, are being suspended from studies, fired from jobs, or arrested at night — all because of social media posts.
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Columbia NOT Colombia
I cannot imagine any of the so-called ‘democratic’ nations, as corrupt as they can be, has ever come anywhere close to the kinds of disgusting behaviours descibed in this article.
The Israeli government is using the Hamas attack as an excuse to rush ahead with its twin aims of destroying Palestine as a nation and re-inforcing the fundamental fascism of their policies.
Accordingly Israel is of now a police-state, with a Stasi of its own openly using Stasi tactics to achieve its ends: and yet Israel’s greatest allies, powerful defenders of democracy through-out the world, the scourge of tyrants everywhere, still whinge on about ‘Israel’s right to protect itself’!
Protect itself from what exactly? Right now it needs protecting from itself; but every-one who could bring the discipline to the naughty child which is Israel are intent on spoiling it, even if that means raising a bully, a gangster.
What the Krays were in the East End, so the Israelis are in the Middle East: and people made heroes even out of the Krays.
This is all barely comprehensible; it’s insane.
German police were stamping out a candle lit vigil for Palestinians earlier this week, as well as violently attacking people displaying Palestinian flags. Germany is projecting its historical guilt, and should be looking at how they can pay the Palestinians reparations.